I’m going to make a change with my coverage of gaming bundles; rather than focusing mostly on Humble Bundle, I’ll try to gather together a short overview of the current gaming bundles on a weekly basis. These posts will generally come on Thursday night/Friday morning, starting… now.

First up, Humble has two bundles going on right now, their regular weekly bundle along with a two week Indie Bundle 11. Starting with the latter, as honestly it’s the more interesting bundle to me (and yes, I bought it!), six games are currently announced for the Indie Bundle 11, split into the core games as well as a couple extras that you get for beating the current average – and next Tuesday Humble will add a few more items to the bundle, as usual. The four current base games in the bundle, which you can get with any donation, are Dust: An Elysian Tail (85%, 05/2013), Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams (77%, 11/2012), Guacamelee! Gold Edition (88%, 08/2013), and The Swapper (87%, 05/2013). Beat the current average ($4.51 at the time of writing) and you also receive Antichamber (82%, 01/2013) and Monaco: What’s Yours Is Mine (83%, 04/2013). Frankly, that’s a stellar lineup of indie games, and every single one is at least worthy of a bit of your gaming free time (unless you hate games I suppose, you old curmudgeon). Purchasing those six games off of Steam would normally run you up a tab of $94.94, so nabbing all six for less than a fiver is practically criminal.

Next up after Humble Bundle is Bundle Stars, who have just announced a new Reboot 1.0 bundle with seven games – and if you act fast (like in the next day), you can get the bundle for just $2. There’s no charity donation here, but if you want a way to grab a bunch of games on the cheap then Bundle Stars has quite a few options currently available. As for Reboot 1.0, you get Steam copies of Dark Sector (66%, 03/2009), Dino D-Day (53%, 04/2011), Dream Pinball 3D (61%, 2006), GTR Evolution (83%, 09/2008), Space Pirates and Zombies (74%, 08/2011), SpaceChem (84%, 03/2011) and the SpaceChem: 63 Corvi DLC (NA, 07/2011). I’m not sure what the regular price will be ($4 probably?), but at $2 if there’s even one game in that list that catches your eye it’s worth the price of admission.

Addendum #1: I saw a post from one of our readers below and I also received an email from one of the developers mentioning Groupees' Build a Greenlight 5 bundle. Given these are apparently all indie games that are still in development (hence the Steam Greenlight tie-in), there are no reviews or scores to speak of at present, but your purchase will get you the games either as a DRM-free direct download or from Desura, and when (if?) the game is officially greenlit, you get a Steam key as well. The way this bundle works is a bit differently as well; you have to pick at least four games and you can choose up to all eight, and the minimum donation per game is $0.25 (so $1 for four or $2 for eight games). I like that you can pick and choose which games to support, so if there's a game you have no interest in playing you don't need to worry about it, but I just went ahead and did a $2 purchase for all eight (even if I might never/hardly play some of them). The current crop of titles consists of Drive to Hell, Heroes of a Broken Land, Magicians and Looters, Monster Challenge Circus, Paper Dungeons, Savage: The Shard of Gosen, Spice Road, and Trace Vector. I always wanted to be a game designer/developer as a youth, so good luck to all of the devs!

And that is a lot of gaming, and a lot of links, so hopefully you can find something you’ll like in that list. Sure, there are big games coming out as well (not so many in the post-holiday doldrums of course), but those tend to get plenty of press. If I missed any great deals, though, let us know in the comments.